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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: indenting java code |
Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:12:19 -0700 |
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Dan Anderson wrote:
`set' is very bad style here.Out of curiosity, can you explain why setq is better then set?
Because it's the convention to only use set when the SYMBOL isn't known (lexically) and has to be determined by evaluation. Because (setq foo bar) == (set 'foo bar) == (set (quote foo) bar), but setq doesn't require the Lisp reader to allocate 2 cons cells for (quote foo). -- Kevin Rodgers
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